Opinion: JFK, Conservative?

FutureOfCapitalism.com editor and author Ira Stoll says John F. Kennedy leaned more to the right than history gives him credit for. Photos: Getty Images

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

... I ... I ... the two Concerto I'm Mary Kissel ... Joe okay is often placed in the same pantheon as FDR LBJ ... was actually a conservative ... I've got author Iris told here as a new book out ... making that argument salsa the editor of future kept was the dot com welcome her ... on ... come on ... the conservative ... on domestic policy happy maker ... with Kennedy pioneered the supply side tax cuts that Reagan and George W Bush ... follow up on ... he was also free trader ... he was a welfare reform or ... and and ... and even on social issues ... it ... has some conservative traits he had a lot of domestic research spending restraint ... and you know he looks pretty good component is today ... totally different era any tax rates for why did the eighties nineties were shown percent ... area I mean he really compare that fit that a ... final chapter on this book on the Kennedy tax cut and at the time capital gains tax rates for twenty five percent ... can anyone or bring them down to nineteen in half ... nineteen half looks pretty good ... compared to today twenty three point eight percent if you include Obamacare ... surcharge of ... can you wanted to bring tax rates down ... on capital gains ... which everyone says is the tax is just rich people pay it back ... down below I he got that we got about a minute left and one of the foreign policy ... Khrushchev ... saw Kennedy as weak begun Cuban missile crisis ... how can you say ... that ... JFK was a conservative Hussein will them to bring on struck strong on foreign policy in the ... Kennedy had a huge military spending increase built a lot more new killer submarines ... tactical nukes in Europe ... I'm and he won the Cuban missile crisis the missiles came out of Cuba ... his dovish is that's where the antiwar movement started was protesting Kennedy's hawkish foreign policy ... very briefly social conservative one another's private line ... well ... I can I there's not a lot ... in the not address this and I live in this book about his private life I know that doesn't discourage people from buying a book but he didn't point ... to the Supreme Court ... will go person who wrote the dissent in Roe v Wade ... okay I rest all with the last word ... thank you so much for being on the program ...